I have measured out my life in coffee spoons

[venta]

Popping upstairs for my morning toast-and-evil, I fell into conversation with a couple of colleagues. One of them tells me that the French refer to American coffee as jus de chaussettes (or "sock juice").

I like this phrase, and may adopt it. Not for American coffee, which I have no particular opinion on, but bad coffee in general.

Comments

[wimble.livejournal.com]

MMmm... sock juice!

For the linguistically limited:

Systran, who I think are running a babelfish (I can't get to altavista, for some reason), translate jus de chaussettes as watery coffee.

Damn them! They've got an idiom list.

But you can get round it by asking them to translate "sock juice" into french. That does the trick.

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

Hmm. IMO, coffee is foul, nasty stuff. So a better phrase may be jus de merde. But, that aside, isn't most coffee (south) American? Am I just wrong, or does this refer specifically to the Starbucks kind of thing from the US?

[chron-job.livejournal.com]

> the French refer to American coffee as
> jus de chaussettes (or "sock juice").

Sigh.

Next time I'll have to bring over some beans and my coffee press.

I wonder if all this critique of American taste is actually a cunning plan to get us to always bring food stuffs.

-= Me.

p.s. If you want REAL Sock Juice, try Valerian Root tea. It definitely tastes like diluted dirty feet.